My Friend the Painter Quotes

Young Claudio and his best friend the Painter spend hours playing backgammon and talking about everything from art to love to politics. One day Claudio comes home to find that his friend has died.

Soon the rumors fly that the Painter committed suicide, and Claudio’s grief gets tangled up with his confusion. Written with remarkable, sustained intensity, this novel tells how Claudio slowly sorts though his intense feelings and comes to an uneasy peace with the fact of his friend’s death.

A slight treatment of a boy’s reaction when an older friend, a painter, commits suicide. His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day.

This novel tells how Claudio slowly sorts though his intense feelings and comes to an uneasy peace with the fact of his friend’s death.

A slight treatment of a boy’s reaction when an older friend, a painter, commits suicide. His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day.

After the painter kills himself, leaving a note that does little to explain why he does not want to live any longer, Claudio can naturally think of nothing else except the infernal “Why?”

His question is partially answered by the man’s married mistress; he no longer wanted to live because “he would never be a great painter.”

His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day; this man had encouraged Claudio’s artistic bent, and talked with him about about life, art, and politics. A

Claudio apparently accepts that this is all he’s going to get, that he is angry over his friend’s death, and that he will never really know why.

Written with remarkable, sustained intensity, this novel tells how Claudio slowly sorts though his intense feelings and comes to an uneasy peace with the fact of his friend’s death.